Geoffrey Lewis
Biography
Geoffrey Lewis was born in Oxford, in 1947. Educated at the City’s High School, and Hatfield Polytechnic, he has since followed a varied career, including spells as a research chemist and professional photographer. After many years in the motor trade, and eight years as the captain of a canal-based passenger boat, he is now semi-retired and concentrating upon writing. His love of the waterways led him to live aboard a narrowboat on the Grand Union Canal for 16 years. Now back on dry land, he lives in Milton Keynes, but maintains his interest in the waterways. Website: www.sgmpublishing.co.uk email: sales@tgfulfilment.co.uk or sales@sgmpublishing.co.uk Contact Address for mail order: T&G Fulfilment Ltd 9 Mackay Trading Estate Station Approach Bicester Oxon OX26 6BZ 01869-369505 | 
L-Plate Boating by Geoffrey Lewis and Tom McManus
SGM Publishing (ISBN: 978-0-9564536-0-0) £6.99 In L-Plate Boating popular canal novelist Geoffrey Lewis joins forces with fellow-boater Tom ‘Mac’ McManus to give us a collection of anecdotes of the canals with an emphasis on the humour of each situation. The stories include a first-time boating trip, the hazards of buying a boat by remote control, and some of the disasters that can happen to the best-intentioned of boaters including the captain of a passenger boat and the crew of a pair of cargo-carrying boats. As well as giving us a good laugh these tales serve to prove that even those who should know what they’re doing ‘on the cut’ can get things horribly wrong from time to time... 
Cycle by Geoffrey Lewis
SGM Publishing (ISBN: 978-0-9545624-3-4) £7.99 The murder of a schoolboy has lain unsolved for twelve years – D.I. David Russell was a youthful detective sergeant at the time. Then an enquiry from India betrays a tenuous link with the case – the connection seems insignificant, but as more information comes to light, Russell realises that his curiosity has led him to a startling and horrifying conclusion. But he doesn’t know that the killer is back in town – and that his own eleven-year-old son has met and befriended the man... 
Flashback by Geoffrey Lewis
SGM Publishing (ISBN: 978-0-9545624-0-3) £6.99 A ten-year-old girl is missing, on her way to visit a friend. Absconded or abducted? D.I. David Russell is in charge of the investigation. As it becomes clear the child has been taken, the events of that evening are unravelled – red herrings are laid to rest until suspicion begins to focus on one man. And then another little girl disappears; everyone thinks she has run away – but has she? 
Strangers by Geoffrey Lewis
SGM Publishing (ISBN 978-0-9545624-1-0) £7.99 The Metropolitan police have smashed a counterfeiting gang – but the ringleaders have escaped. Now, Ron Walker has a problem: How does he protect his family when it is being threatened by a soulless killer? As the forgers try to re-establish themselves in the provinces, David Russell’s investigation becomes a race against time to convict the men and to save Walker’s grandson from the fate which is stalking him along the idyllic highway of the Grand Union Canal. 
Winter's Tale by Geoffrey Lewis
SGM Publishing (ISBN 978-0-9545624-2-7) £6.99 A young man is dead, shot down outside a nightclub. All the evidence points to his girlfriend, murder the result of a lovers’ quarrel. But David Russell is unhappy with this conclusion. As he delves into the man’s background and the circumstances of his death, he is led into a world of drugs and prostitution, until the ripples of a simple crime overlap with a covert international conspiracy. But the answer, when it comes, is surprisingly close to home... 
A Boy Off The Bank by Geoffrey Lewis
SGM Publishing (ISBN 978-0-9545624-6-5) £7.99 First book in the ‘Michael Baker’ Trilogy. Ten-year-old Michael has had enough. He’s taken all that his miserable life can throw at him. On a bitter January night in 1940, he sets out to commit suicide – but all does not go according to plan... A Boy Off The Bank tells a story of England’s canals in wartime, of the pressure and pain, the humour and resilience of the boating people. It charts the progress of a job becoming ever more difficult against the panorama of worldwide events, seen from the perspective of a narrowboat’s back cabin. 
A Girl At The Tiller by Geoffrey Lewis
SGM Publishing (ISBN 978-0-9545624-7-2) £7.99 Second book of the ‘Michael Baker’ trilogy. With the outbreak of peace in 1945, life on the canals seems fit to settle back into its prewar pattern – but change is on the way. The prospect of nationalisation brings hope of new investment, but before that can happen the big freeze of the winter of 1947 strikes. The characters familiar from the first book continue their lives, plying their trade despite the deteriorating state of the waterways; and new faces appear, one of whom is to have more impact on Alby Baker’s crew than they could ever guess. 
The New Number One by Geoffrey Lewis
SGM Publishing (ISBN 978-0-9545624-8-9) £7.99 Third book of the ‘Michael Baker’ trilogy. 1948: The reality of life on Britain’s nationalised waterways is becoming apparent to those who work on the canals. More change threatens as the postwar world demands faster, cheaper transport and old ways become outmoded. The characters' familiar from the last two books carry on their lives, coping with ever more difficult conditions as the demand for their services declines. As always, the story focuses on the humanity of the characters, the pleasures and hardships, the occasional joys and tragedies, of working life on the canal. 
Starlight by Geoffrey Lewis
SGM Publishing (ISBN 978-0-9545624-5-8) £6.99 The story of one boy’s discovery of the canals, through his friend the lock-keeper’s son. Set against the backdrop of the Oxford Canal when the carrying trade was all-but finished, the tale leads the reader through the long heat-wave of the summer of 1955, as it was seen by an eleven-year-old boy living in a little North Oxfordshire village. A humorous and poignant story of childhood friendship and loyalty: ‘A beautiful tale, beautifully told’ |
